Dr. Joe studies fishes in the estuaries, mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs.
Dr. Joe is an Associate Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Science and
Policy and an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at East Carolina
University in Greenville, NC. He is a marine ecologist specializing in the
ecology of coastal fishes and fisheries, seagrass fishes and sound production by
fishes. He is also Past - President of the
Tidewater Chapter of the American Fisheries Society .

Photos of Dr. Joe

(Top
row, l to
r): Dr.
Joe Luczkovich recovering a plankton net in the Caribbean near Punta Galeta,
Panama; with the 2009 Marine Ecology course returning from Toboga Island, Pacific
Ocean,
Panama; with a striped bass on Ocracoke Island, NC; and with Nick the
"Flying Spaghetti Monster" Pirate and director Randy Olson after the
film "Flock of Dodos" premiered at ECU.

(Bottom row, l to r): Recovering sonobuoys in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina;
recovering a Fish Acoustic Buoy and Underwater Logging System (FABULS); On the
black sands of the Big Island, Hawaii; and surveying reefs in Dominican
Republic.

Dr.
Joe's Research
Projects:

The links at this site
concern Dr. Joe's research on the ecology of marine fishes and their
habitats.

Fish
Acoustics:
The Sciaenid Acoustics Research Team at ECU consists of Dr. Joe
Luczkovich, Physics professor Mark Sprague, Biology Professor Hal J.
Daniel, and graduate students. This web page describes how sounds
produced by fishes are being used to study the behavior and ecology of
fishes in NC

Fish
in Food
Web Visualizations: This page shows some of the
food webs
that I have been analyzing using 3-dimensional MAGE visualization
software, along with Jeff Johnson (ECU - IISCP/Sociology), Dave
Richardson (Duke University - Biochemistry) and Steve
Borgatti
(Boston College - Organizational Studies). The food webs were analyzed
using published data from aquatic (seagrass, rocky intertidal, and
estuarine) and terrestrial (rainforest, desert, and the food web of
Norway) ecosystems, and can be viewed here using your browser.

"Studies of
Socio-Natural Co-Evolution from Different Parts of the
World" sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute and the Institute for Water
and Environmental Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian
Branch, Academgorodok, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia, 2-5 Sep 2002.

Pinfish
nutrition and ecology: The pinfish, Lagodon
rhomboides
, is one of the most important fishes in the seagrass ecosystems of the
Southeastern USA. At this website, one may find summaries of the
research done by Dr. Joe and his students on what pinfish eat and how
they obtain energy from seagrass.